… that North Carolina Americana/folk duo Mandolin Orange—whose music has been described as “wistful and contemplative without being somber, and always firmly grounded in the South” by New York Public Radio—is taking the stage at UA’s Faulkner Performing Arts Center on Dec. 5, and at Little Rock’s South on Main on Dec. 6? Cause you…

Perched from a bridge just overhead, Southwest Missouri-based photographer Henry O. Head managed to snap this image of some visiting friends as they were floating down the Sylamore Creek in Mountain View.

It’s pretty darn easy to accept the world as it is—to adhere to the pre-drawn lines and think within them. But—thank goodness—there are some people out there who don’t. The best part? They’re our friends and neighbors, and they’re all breaking the mold here at home.

“As I write this goodbye to you, it’s snowing in Arkansas and 75 and brilliantly sunny in my new hometown of Phoenix, a meteorological metaphor for my bipolar state of mind these past few months. Life in Arkansas has been good to me, and Arkansas—and my family here at Arkansas Life—will always be home.”

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